Meet Gotham

Lauren Marino

Vice President, Editorial Director

Lauren Marino is Vice President, Editorial Director of Gotham Books, where she has been since the launch of the imprint in 2001. She has been in publishing for over 20 years and has worked at Broadway Books, Hyperion, where she was also responsible for overseeing the Miramax imprint, HarperCollins and The Robbins Office, a literary agency. She has acquired, edited and published several New York Times bestsellers. Her list is eclectic and tends to fall into the following categories: memoir, biography and narrative non-fiction, food and travel narrative, current events, popular culture, beauty and style, and thought provoking psychology, self-help and motivation. At Gotham she has published five bestsellers with Hill Harper, three bestsellers with Russell Simmons, Thoughts Without Cigarettes by Pulitzer Prize winner Oscar Hijuelos, Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington by Terry Teachout, which was long listed for a National Book Award, The Girls from Ames and The Magic Room by Jeffrey Zaslow, Candy Girl by Academy Award winner Diablo Cody, Dead End Gene Pool by Wendy Burden, Dark Nights of the Soul and A Religion of One’s Own by Thomas Moore, The Secret Lives of Wives and Sex After…by Iris Krasnow, The Good Food Revolution by Will Allen and Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life by James Hollis, PhD. She has also worked with Maarten Troost, Rachel Dratch, Isaac Mizrahi, Lewis Richmond, Harriet Lerner, Julie Klausner, Beth Kephart, Teri Agins, Pam Skaist Levy and Gela Nash Taylor, Ned Zeman, LUCKY magazine, Ann Crittenden, Ruth Reichl, Jane Green, Brooke Siler, Cindy Crawford, Willie Nelson, Tom Perkins, Stephen Davis, Pamela Clarke Keogh, Coleman Barks, Mark Epstein, Lama Surya Das, Cheryl Richardson and Cherie Carter Scott.

Lindsay Gordon

Publicity Director

Lindsay Gordon joined Gotham Books as a Senior Publicist in 2009. She was named Publicity Manager in 2010, Assistant Director in 2012, Associate Director and Director in 2014. She is also the Director of Publicity for Avery. In addition to managing the publicity department, she works directly with a number of Gotham’s high-profile, best-selling authors including Hill Harper, Michael Oher, Rachel Dratch, Craig Robinson, and the I Can Has Cheezburger? series by Professor HappyCat. Lindsay has orchestrated a number of innovative, multi-platform publicity campaigns for surprise best-sellers and breakout books such as The Lost Dogs by Jim Gorant and My Two Moms by Zach Wahls. Before joining Gotham, Lindsay worked at the former Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group at Random House, Inc.

Charlie Conrad

Executive Editor

Charlie Conrad joined Gotham Books as Executive Editor in January 2013. An editor for more than 25 years, he was formerly Vice President and Executive Editor of Crown/Random House, he has also been Executive Editor and Editorial Director of Paperbacks at Doubleday and Broadway Books and Editor-in-Chief of Anchor Books/Doubleday, and held editorial positions at Warner Books, Newmarket Press, and New American Library. His editorial interests include narrative nonfiction (history, investigative reporting, travel/adventure), biography and memoir and popular culture (film, music, sports). Among the New York Times bestselling authors he has worked with are Eric Clapton (Clapton: The Biography), Jon Krakauer (Into the Wild, Under the Banner of Heaven), Frances Mayes, (Under the Tuscan Sun), Frank Abagnale (Catch Me if You Can), David Kamp (The United States of Arugula), James Webb (Born Fighting), Ben Macintyre (Double Cross) and Geraldine Brooks (Nine Parts of Desire).

Brooke Carey

Editor

Brooke Carey has spent her entire editorial career at Penguin Group. Prior to joining Gotham in July 2013, she worked as an editor at Portfolio, Sentinel, and Current, where she started as an editorial assistant in November 2007. She graduated summa cum laude from Syracuse University in 2007 with degrees in magazine journalism, history, and Italian. Books she’s worked on include The End of the Suburbs by Leigh Gallagher, How to Be Richer, Smarter, and Better Looking than Your Parents by Zac Bissonnette, What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast by Laura Vanderkam, Love in the Time of Algorithms by Dan Slater, Pound Foolish by Helaine Olen, and A Simple Christmas by Mike Huckabee. At Gotham, she is interested in acquiring books in the categories of humor, pop culture/entertainment, psychology, pop science, narrative non-fiction, technology, career advice, women’s issues, relationships, and memoir.

Gotham Newsroom

Teri Agins, Wall Street Journal fashion critic and author of Hijacking The Runway: How Celebrities Are Stealing the Spotlight from Fashion Designers, which went on sale from Gotham on October 9, has been hijacking the media this week, including a fascinating first serial excerpt in the Wall Street Journal, a tremendous interview on the nationally syndicated Marketplace and TV time with CNBC’s […]

A new PBS web series, “It’s Okay to Be Smart,” highlights some of the many myths and fallacies author David McRaney investigates in his book, You Are Now Less Dumb (Gotham, 8/5/14). The five-minute video, which already has 238,000 views in just one week, ends with a special shout-out to McRaney and his books (4:53). Both Nerdist and A.V. Club featured […]

Master entrepreneur, original hip-hop mogul, and New York Times bestselling Gotham author Russell Simmons was the featured guest on the season finale of Oprah Winfrey’s Super Soul Sunday on June 15, when they discussed yoga, meditation and of course, his book Success Through Stillness. The episode will re-air this coming Sunday, June 22 at 10 am ET. Tune in via the […]